next speaker. >> hi, my name is tracy. thank you for televising this for other public housing tenants who can't make it. i have to read this. i have a disability, because i can't remember nothing. so i am a tenant of huntersview public housing and i'm going through it the relocation. during our relocation everyone should have the right to return. i have the right to return. as time goes by, i realize that this relocation project is an attempt to push the black community out of san francisco. i attended the design meeting in 2009 and found out this year that nothing that we said was taken in, not only that, those who are very low-income are affected too. those who are waiting on the waiting-list for public housing have to have good credit. i have learned that at a meeting months ago they will

check credits now. that is discrimination also. is it an attempt to remove the very low-income too out of san francisco? but what about the sick and the seniors who can't help themselves to fix their credit? my community new home is shoved in the corner. here is a picture. i don't know if you can see that. we're down here. but all of the other -- my community is shoved in the corner on the bottom where there is no view. but all of the other tax credit and homeowners get to have the million-dollar views. me and my residents are already going through a lot with our relocation, which i put a complaint with housing authority. i can't believe to this day it's still open. going on three months and i know there is no investigation started because nobody has called me for witnesses. nobody cares about what me and my residents is going through,

but just care about all of the money that they are receiving to help my community through our transition. i swear under the hud rules no one should be evicted under the eviction protection law, but i see others being evicted during our relocation. anyway, here are some of the rules that i think is kind of ridiculous. why did they take away all of our living essentials, but other john stewart buildings in san francisco has back and front door, washer outlets, balcony, windows and a kitchen and bathroom? why do i have to pay security deposit just to move back? and another thing is i will be evicted if i am arrested and found not guilty. these are rules that are ridiculous to my community. the black community has a right to stay in the communities that have stayed in for years.

they were brought from africa here and again i'm speaking for bayview hunters point. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, good afternoon. chair mar, supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener. my name is tessie ester ceo of mothers against crime and i ran a foodbank on fridays and i'm the coordinator for mother's committee on environmental justice. people speaking on huntersview are so right. there with 250 residents living in hunterview and right now there are only 125. some choose to move and some got evicted, which shethy they shouldn't have.

like tracy was saying, i have seen three bridges all my life and right now i see nothing, there is no view and it's not fair. i have great concern about the residents that did move. how are they going to be able to find these people and come back? because they do have a right. right now we have been working very hard with mr. alvarez. he took us through the house rules and everything. three weeks ago we had a meeting. i didn't agree with these house rules and we did a petition in huntersview to go over it again. we took it down to the mayor's office, to amy peterson, who is here today, but we still haven't heard from them. one of our main concerns that we're having now we have these cbos and non-profit organizations using huntersview name to get funding. i'm asking you supervisors, you

guys need to look into that. they are going through the cbos and getting tickets for this and tickets for that and not giving it to the residents that live there and pay rent. it's not fair. who are the people to decide where the money is going without us being at the table? we're asking you desperately, we have a right to be able to have connection with our services which they are not doing. if they are going to give it to somebody else, why are they here? i hope we can continue to work with mr. alvarez and he has given me time and patience working with the housing authority to work things out. but i want you guys to look into this about this right to return. if we can't return, than nobody can return. if we can't have these things -- [speaker not understood] we're being aced out of our own community and it's not fair.

as you know huntersview is a housing family development. what about our children? you are telling us that our kids can't do that. our kids have to be in at 6:00. our kids have more say so and authority in our house. that is how they raised their kids, but not mine. i ask you to look into this matter as soon as possible. >> miss ester you mentioned 257 units, but only 125 currently used? >> 125? it's 107 now? supervisor cohen will speak to this a moment and my understanding is that hope sf u the procedure is that people aren't displaced, but they are staying in the same vicinity, so that as the new units are developed, but you are critical

of that project? >> yes i am. i have no problem working with hope sf, but they need to work with the residents. we know more about what is going on in our community than hope sf, the ywca and anybody else. we live there everyday. we know what is going on and without us being at the table, i have a problem with that. i'm the president of the council and community activist and i have been doing this since 1959. you can't tell me about my community more than me. i think if they would work more closely with the resident and resident leaders and people in the community, who we work w with, i think we could make a difference. i'm here to look out for the best interest of my residents. huntersview is a family housing development and these people using our names and getting money for programs, they are talking bay program at huntersview and there is nothing going up there and we need do something about that.

>> thank you, miss ester. next speaker. >> espinola jackson. i used to be a tenant in huntersview. and the tenants association is the group that makes the decisions to what goes on in that neighborhood. i was the chair of 15 -- we had 15 different areas, housing areas. and we would meet once a month to talk about what was in our area. we don't have that anymore. the tenants have lost their voice. they have lost their voice and i hope that you support having it televised, so people can really see what is going on. who is who and who is playing the game on the tenants? i was very surprised when i went to the housing authority commission meeting last thursday to support it being televised.

to see a commission, who was a supporter of the lenoir and when i look around and go to different places i see people sitting that did not support the community, but supported lenoir and the health problems that are going on in community. people are dying. they are dying over there. and the thing of it is that it seems as though the only thing anybody is concerned with is the big developers. you know, at one time being black living in fillmore and you said i'm going to hunters-point, you would say oh, no i'm not going over there, but guess what? they have learned since 1996 how sunny it is over there. no fog over there and we have got all of these developers, you know, coming into san francisco to build over there. do you know that they build these -- i was looking at, i

believe it's on page -- one of these pages. i can't see that well anyway. do you know that they don't even have windows in the bathroom that these people are fixing to move back into? they don't have backdoors. they were promised that the units would be the same size as the ones that they left of the they are now smaller and they are fixing to do phase 2 and guess what happened? they selected a non-tenant to work with the engineer and it's wrong. it's politics. i know you may not want to hear it, but i'm here to tell you to look into and make sure that the tenants are listened to. >> thank you, miss jackson. next speaker, mr. paulson. >> when will i see housing

again? when will we share precious housing moments? if i have to wait forever, will i have to suffer, suffer the whole land use day? when will i see it come my way? we got money, we got friends, is this my beginning or is this the housing end? when will i see housing again? and return it again? when will i see it again? [ applause ] >> thank you. next speaker. if there is anyone else who would like to speak, please come forward. >> hi, my name is maxine and i have been a housing resident for more than five years. and i live at alice griffin. i have been attending the residents advisory board and i have been through the leadership academy.

and i also am a shelter monitor for the city for city homeless -- city-funded homeless shelters. i would just like to speak about the right to return that in motivating residents they are going to be for more encouraged when they feel that they have this right in legislation that it becomes law. it's going to take everybody to make a successful redevelopment in alice griffin and the other developments. the more help you can get the better and from the other parties involved, supervisors, cities, developers. it will encourage residents to make more effort if they feel they have a guaranteed right. additional screening, i am a very present person in the tenants' association. i'm not on the board, but i come to all of the meetings and

there is already a lot of misunderstanding about the additional screening and what they are saying at the meetings that you would need. so i think that would clarify it. also, having the third party to review the claims and discrepancies. the current housing authority hearing process is sort of run by housing authority. that people who are in the housing authority do the reviewing and the judgment basically. and a lot of people, advocates and residents, don't feel like they use that system very much because it's sort of an in-house thing. and also about the -- i will just make a comment about having the housing authority at city hall. being on the shelter monitoring committee we used to have our meetings in a smaller place, where we got lots of people who

were of course unhappy about sheriff's shelters and when they moved it to city hall it's a much better place for people to access and to listen and to find out. thank you. >> thank you, seeing no other public comment, public comment is closed. i wanted to ask a question of mr. alvarez, who is here. i know a number of questions were made about the process, and i know that that policy is really intended to minimize permanent displacement and hardship, but also really protect the rights of residents of public housing. i would just like to know if you could respond to some of the comments? >> sure. good afternoon, mr. chairman and chairman mar, supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener, the boards and commissions in july of '09 passed similar policy regarding this executive right to return. however, the

exclusive right to return and this purpose of this legislation is to do that and we support that initiative. i believe there is some misunderstanding. so for the current residents the issue -- there won't be any additional screening to my knowledge and there won't be any need for housing deposits and they will simply be transferred to the new property. anyone who has not been evicted or in the process of being evicted or moving day will summarily being able to move. it will be their choice. some of the other questions of the house rules, there will likely be house rules, of particular things that the property management company wants to see differently. in other words, things like music,

whether it should go beyond 10:00 p.m. or number of guests and where one can park. those are common elements found in most apartment complexes in the city and county and we don't expect that to be any different than nirelse.anywhere else. the third item that you heard quite a bit about is how we handle appeals. currently those are handled by third party attorneys typically. they are under contract to the authority burb they are not employees of the authority and to be very candid, it's rare that we overturn a hearing officer's decision. i think the real confusion as i

hear some of what we're hearing is a conversation of what will happen with our current residents as opposed to what will happen at the turnover of new residents moving into the building. lastly let me say i'm very excited about huntersview and it's above ground and i encourage you to take a look at it. it's absolutely beautiful and the views from those buildings will be as intended to be and when we have our grand opening you can join us and celebrate what we're doing at huntersview. thank you. >> thank you. colleagues are there any other questions or concerns? let me just ask supervisor wiener and supervisor cohen, we have amendments that were introduced and adopted last meeting. can we adopt the non-substantive amendment that miss henderson produced without objection? [ gavel ]

and then colleagues can we move this forward with a positive recommendation without objection? [ gavel ] >> thank you >> thank you everybody for coming out and thank you miss henderson and thank supervisor olague as well. is there any further business before us? >> there is no further business, chairman. >> thank you everyone. meeting adjourned [ [ gavel ]

>> when the new california academy of sciences opened in 2008, it quickly became one of the top tourist magnets in the city. part of the cal academies' astronomical success is the weekly nightlife party. >> i am joined by helen, who is here to school me on all the nocturnal activities that are getting ready to take place here. tell us a little about what we can expect to see at nightlife. >> we open up the doors every thursday night at the california academy of sciences. there are certain things you can see every week you can go to the museum, visit the planetarium, and we bring in bars and a deejay or band. it is a different feel from during the day, something different every week. tonight , we have beer and music.

-- tonight we have great beer and music. it is beer week. we have a dozen local brewers in african hall. we have a deejays to set up throughout the museum and a live performance at 9:00 p.m. tonight. >> what has been your favorite part as a participant or as an observer? >> my favorite part is to walk around the aquarium in to see people with a drink in their hands, getting to know maybe somebody new, may be looking for a day, or chatting with friends. there jellyfish. i mean, they are beautiful. >> the culmination of the animals. >> it is very impressive. we do not have this at home. >> tell us a little about some of the spider's we see here on display. >> at the california academy of sciences, there is a very large collection of preserved and live

specimens, which are the evidence about evolution. we have the assassin spiders, which are spiders that exclusively kill and eat other spiders. they are under the microscope here. research done and the california academy's i rhinology lab suggests that the assassin spiders have been doing this for over 150 million years. this glassed in room is a real scientific laboratory, and the people in that room are preparing specimens of vertebrate, that is mammals and birds. the way they do this is to remove the skin, sew it together in a relatively lifelike pose, and ensure that it does not decompose. >> i am a really big class actress fan, so i am here to see

them, and beer week. >> i wanted to learn something and have fun. >> i always enjoy it. i am not all is well -- always working as i am tonight. sometimes i come to enjoy the music and to dance. ♪ >> culturewire covers the arts in san francisco, and one of my favorite culture artists is here tonight. jason, thank you for being on culturewire. tell us about some of your posters that we have here today. >> most of the posters here are four specific shows or tours. i am hired by the bands or the venue. >> what is the inspiration behind these posters? >> no, disease of the related to the bay and, of course. music -- it is related to the band, of course the musical content or isn't related to the bed. album covers can come from

anywhere. ♪ ♪ >> class actress was great. we have been having so much fun. i did not realize how beautiful the cal academy looks than that. what other events take place here? >> we do corporate events that night on a regular basis. but nightlife is your best bet to come in as a regular person pharmacy the academy at night, and visit with friends.

calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks. you can get tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. >> thank you, everyone, for coming. i welcome to the opening of scoots san francisco network. [applause]. >> thanks. today, we are opening our beta program to the san francisco public and with that, we are opening the world's first network of shared electric scooters. [applause].

>> there we go, we're back, okay, so before i tell you about our s*frs for san francisco, i want to introduce someone who has already made san francisco an even better place to live, mayor ed lee. there are two things about the mayor's work and his administration that are particularly important to scoot, the first is that mayor lee is working hard to make this city an even better place to start and grow a new business, and second, he's been a toothless support of electric vehicles to improve san francisco's environment and the global environment as a whole so please welcome mayor ed lee. >> michael, matt, congratulations to scoot, yes. scoot and san francisco, well, let me first of all put this in some little perspective that i know, i know that we just announced last week, eb week in san francisco to the delight of so many people who want to just

have modes of transportation, multiple modes of transportation in a city that are also environmentally friendly and to contribute that reducing our fossil fuels, we are in san francisco world citizens after all and i know it's exciting for ed risken, our mta manager, he and i were excited to talk about different modes of transportation as we create all these exciting events to come to san francisco. i know it's exciting for board president david chiu, we tried to put pods for car sharing in neighborhoods on public streets and began in russian hill on his district, he's a vibrant, vibrant avid supporter of car sharing as i have been, i know

ed riskens, well at the hub, knowing that that's an incubator for great ideas came the idea of scooter san francisco and the scooter network, and it's the latest contribution to an ongoing conversation that board president chiu are having in this society, it really is when you come to automobile and or multiple modes of transportation sharing, scooter sharing is the latest contribution for people having access in our economy rather than just offered ownership and to me, that's really what wha* the shared economy is about and this great incubating idea of scooter sharing is wonderfulfinger these are all electric, you can power this up

on 18 cents worth of power as compared to what gasoline prices are. it takes, if you want to go around the city at 30 miles an hour, it will be less than half of the power of a toaster. it's equivalent to 850 miles a gallon to be on one of these electric scooters. i think it's safe, obviously we're going train people in the right way to abide but all the traffic regulations that we have, but as i sit in my car on days where i have to wait and 7, watch these scooters go by, it's kind of like where am i and what am i doing and can i contribute even more, so it's exciting to see this happen in san francisco, to see its launch, it's exciting that it's an idea that incubated out of the hub, it's exciting to not only see that it's fun for people to get around,